Sentences with phrase «urban school districts in the nation»

All that said, Chicago isn't the only urban school district in the nation struggling with the demands of educating a large number of high - need students.

During his tenure, Chicago became the first urban school district in the nation to release an RFP requesting educators and community organizations to start charter schools.

During this time, Cohn became the longest serving superintendent of any large, urban school district in the nation.

By 2004, the Council of the Great City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban school districts in the nation.

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In late 2014, the Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of six of the nation's largest districts (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and Orlando), announced that it would seek to buy only antibiotic - free chicken for its... [Continue reading]

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

It is in the less desirable and more troubled systems, the nation's urban and rural school districts, that administrators currently have tremendous difficulty finding sufficient numbers of certified teachers.

Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools, the nation's eighth largest urban school district.

Previous Voucher Research The IES evaluation of the DC OSP adds to a growing body of research on means - tested school voucher programs in urban districts across the nation.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a Washington - based advocacy group for 66 of the nation's largest urban school districts, presented Mr. Forgione with the award at a dinner on Oct. 23, during its annual conference in Houston.

Perhaps no event represented the trend in urban school politics better than Harold Levy's becoming chancellor of the nation's largest school district, New York City, in May 2000.

The article announcing the undertaking tells us that almost half the nation's urban school districts had superintendent vacancies in 1990, and that the average tenure for such chief executive officers is now about two and a half years.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distrUrban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distSchool Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school distrurban school distschool districts.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenurban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenurban centers.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts and the largest school district in the state, has recently experienced the benefits of this collaboration by piloting a new adaptive cognitive vocabulary app that's enabled by this new platform.

Results are out for the 21 urban school districts that participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as «The Nation's Report Card,» and there are encouraging 10 - year trends of overall improvement in reading and math in grades 4 and 8.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

As the first noneducator to take the helm of a large urban district, Vallas inspired a trend in urban school reform across the nation.

Many of the nation's teachers, especially in the poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.

Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disschools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school disSchools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nschool system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nSchool (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

Miami - Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the nation, and Duval County, the 20th largest, were two of only four large, urban districts to improve in fourth - grade math.

Recruitment and retention challenges are once again leading to teacher shortages across the nation, especially in urban and rural school districts.

Using this process has increased student achievement for all subgroups in diverse urban school districts throughout the nation.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on nationalURBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on nationalUrban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

Across the nation, the leaders of major urban school districts recognize that lessons in creativity and imaginative problem solving must begin at an early age if our children are to thrive in school and in a global economy.

To improve education in the nation's troubled urban schools, school districts must make the development of stronger school leadership a top priority.

«There is a front - loading concept to teacher residency programs that is the antithesis of how ed reform and teacher prep has worked in the nation,» said Anissa Listak, executive director of Urban Teacher Residency United, which has residency programs serving 29 school districts.

«Ray Cortines has more experience, skill and expertise at running a large urban public school district in the nation and maybe the world,» said board member Steve Zimmer, explaining why the seven board members turned to Cortines.

We support urban school boards, foster effective school district leadership, and address the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban centers.

They are unique in the nation in that they have autonomy over budget, staffing, governance, curriculum and assessment, and the school calendar to provide increased flexibility to organize schools and staffing to best meet students» needs, while operating within the economy of scale of a large urban public school district.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

«In presenting these excellence awards, CUBE is not only celebrating the success of these school boards but providing the nation with a showcase of excellence and achievement in urban school district management, says Micah Ali, chair of the CUBE Steering CommitteIn presenting these excellence awards, CUBE is not only celebrating the success of these school boards but providing the nation with a showcase of excellence and achievement in urban school district management, says Micah Ali, chair of the CUBE Steering Committein urban school district management, says Micah Ali, chair of the CUBE Steering Committee.

To promote it, he is blitzing the country and filling the nation's newspapers with an argument that is familiar yet powerful: High quality charter schools are the best hope for urban education, so states and cities should do everything in their power to allow them to grow and prosper, and school districts should embrace them as well.

The AFT is the nation's second - largest teachers union and represents school employees in most of the major urban school districts.

Cahill, who was in charge of urban school reform at the Carnegie Foundation, came to the nation's largest school district last year to oversee a total revamping of its high school program.

In addition to her work as a legislator who fought tirelessly for the children she now serves, she is also a Broad Fellow and is among an elite group of individuals who lead some of the nation's largest urban districts and charter school networks.

Inland Empire School District Repeats as Finalist for Academic Prize The Corona - Norco Unified School District was named as a finalist Thursday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence by minority and low - income students in urban districts across the nation.

Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.

D.C. Public Schools was once among the nation's lowest - performing urban school districts, but in recent years has won widespread attention for making rapid progress as judged by scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

People from other cities and districts called us at Substance or contacted Dr. Jordan directly in Chicago when they discovered just how pernicious «The Paul Vallas Method» really was, especially for black children and the nation's segregated urban public schools.

A 2007 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high scSchools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high schoolsschools).

Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.

Many urban districts across the nation have expanded the proportion of charter schools; increased the percentage of teachers trained in alternate certification programs; widened attendance zones; adopted voucher programs; constructed new facilities; and changed their relationships with teachers unions.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

During his school board tenure spanning two decades, Ogden has been an active participant in a plan of action to build and sustain a governance team designed to promote academic achievement in one of the nation's largest urban school districts.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

«Long Beach USD had already earned a reputation for excellence: The district received the second ever Broad Prize in 2003 as the nation's best urban school system.